tillerinobot

Moving

I'm moving cloud providers. This sucks. The cloud is great for prototypes, or for projects that have extremely variable demands. The cloud is also notoriously expensive and it is very hard to change providers. The revenue from Patreon has never even come close to covering the running cost.

Digitalocean on the other hand - the provider I've been with for some years now - has never once in all those years adjusted storage costs. SSD storage's prices have 2024-11-17 12:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post

The problem with the 50s

Two weeks ago, a reddit user pointed out an issue with Tillerinobot that started when the pp formula was changed to punish 50s directly (not just indirectly through accuracy). I had known about this for a while, but hadn't done anything about it yet. I had done some research (see response), but got distracted with other things. So these past days, I got off my ass and finally ...

pp update, new recommendations model

Hi all,

I almost forgot that not everyone is on Discord where I already announced this earlier today. I'll just copy what I wrote there:

pp calculation was updated in osu some months ago. Between christmas and now, we've finally been able to get everything up to speed in the bot as well. This was an unusually large update, I'll write a post about it later...

For now, I wanna talk about another update which is to the recommendations model. Every time the...

Log in to ppaddict with your osu! account

Until recently, you could only log in to ppaddict with your Twitter, Google, or Facebook account. You could then link that account to your osu! account to modify Tillerinobot settings or get recommendations via ppaddict.

Starting now, you can directly log in with your osu! account. Just pick osu! from the Login menu. When you log in this way, there is no longer any need to link the account manually. Thanks a bunch to...

How do recommendations work?

There are a couple of questions which I get asked a lot: Can I get a mutual? Can you ask yourself for recommendations? OMG a bot can play osu!? Are you actually peppy? (the latter ones usually come up when I’m playing on the Tillerino account).

There is this quote which I can’t cite correctly, but it goes a little something like this: “Point out a single person and I won’t have any idea what they’ll do. Show me a crowd and I’ll tell you exactly what they’ll do.” It’s a...

Let me just take a look at this issue reeeeeal quick...

Today, a Github user filed an issue on the Tillerinobot issue tracker. It's a small issue, but it kept me busy for a whole while. I wanted to tell the story behind this because every developer has had a day like this, and I thought that maybe somebody might get a kick out of it.

The issue

lualex403 describes that the pp query breaks for a map. Something about a corrupt file. And interest...

Sales Tax stuff

Patreon has made some changes regarding sales tax, VAT, GST, whatever it's called in your country. And they've been pretty annoying about it, too (see screenshot, lol). Honestly: I've skimmed the documents. Not really sure what the consequences are gonna be since they vary a lot between countries (or US states). Anyway, what _they_ need to do a good job is to know what kind of reward is attached to each tier. So here's what I told them:

The Tillerinobot sugar is worth 90 cents and the D...

Updated recommendations

A lot has happened. Some months ago the osu! ppv2 formulae were updated. This update was the largest update to ppv2 in years. Not only did this break the pp values that Tillerinobot claimed for certain plays, but it also messed with the recommendation algorithm.

Meanwhile I was working on general technical improvements. The largest improvement is that Tillerinobot now completely runs on Kubernetes. Another technical improvement was the so called response-queue. This fixes an ancient "ov...